Improvement in breech-loading- fire-arms



CARTER & EDWARDS.

. Breech Lader.

Patented Jany 19, 1869.'

No. 85,999.I

VVE/V TORS when a cap or cover, E, is removed.

- tridge is inserted, when the bolt or plug Gis drawn back.

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`HENRY'CARTER AND GEORGE HENRY EDWARDS, OFDEMPSEY STREET, 'STEPNEY,ENGLAND.

Letters Patent No. 85,999, elated January 19, *1869.l

M I1VIPROVEMENT IN BREECH-LOADIN G- FIRE-ARMS.

The Behedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

T0 all 'whomt mail 007mm The cap or cover is rounded in form, so that itwill Be it known that. we, HENRY CARTER and GEORGE correspond to thebreech-piece D and bolt o r plug C, HENRY-EDWARDS, ofDempsey Street,Stepney, in the and it tapers oif at the rear, where it iits on thesmall county of Middlesex, and Kingdom of England, have of the stock, soas to present a smooth surface thereinvented new and useful Improvementsin Breechwith. Y Loading Fire-Arms and we do hereby declare that The capor cover is secured in position by a screw, the following is a full,clear, and exact description b, passing down through a solid abutment,F, at the thereof, which will enable thoseskilled in the art to` innerside ofthe cap or cover, at. its taper end, and make and use the same,reference being had to the into a tailpiec,e, c, the rear end of whichis let into the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecifistock. (See iig. 1.) cation. At the inner side of the cap orcover, near its' front, This invention is chiey applicable to that.class of at each side of its lower part, there isa rib orprojecbreech-loading fire-arms which close with a sliding rotion, f.tating bolt, provided with a' projecting hand-lever. These ribs orprojections arereceived in longitudinal The invention consists, first,in constructing the bargrooves, g, made in the exterior of thebreech-piece, rel of the fire-arm with an open rear end, and also withand serve to connect the cap or cover thereto, Without an openlever-slot, for the' ready vwithdrawal of the bolt, interfering, in theleast, with the ready/removal or dewhen required, for cleaning, and inapplying a cap or taehment of the cap or cover. r cover tothe hinderpart of the shoe of a gun, which This will be fully understood byreferring to iig. 3. cap or cover completely covers the groove oropening G (see fig. 6) represents thc trigger', and H, the sere, inwhich the sliding bolt works, with the exception vof both of which arein one piece, and work on a common theropening necessary for theintroduction of the carfulcrum, h. tridge, and for thenecessary traverseof the hand-lever By this arrangement, the lock-action is greatly simofthe sliding bolt. pliied and rendered much quicker in its operation. Theinvention consists, also, in fitting the extractor, The arrangement andapplication of the sere-spring applied to such guns, so that a dovetailend, fitted into I and hammer K are shown in fig. 1. a recess in thesliding bolt, shall be received in an under- The hammer K, when freedfrom thesere, is forced out and dovetail recess, when the bolt is drawnbackupward by a spring, M, and actsagainst a striker, L, in the bolt orplug when the latter is locked in its ward, so as to prevent its fallingfrom the bolt when it is withdrawn at the breech. forward position, thestriker exploding the cap of the In the accompanying sheet ofdrawingscartridge, shown in red in figs. l and 3. Figure 1 is a sidesectional view of our invention, The inclined projecting end, l,-of thebolt or plug O taken in the line `:e x, iig. 3. serves to prevent thehammer K from acting on the Figure 2, a side view of the same. strikerL, except-when the bolt or plug O is shoved Figure 3, a plan or top Viewof the same, partly in forward, and turned or adjusted, ready for thedischarge section. of the gun.

Figure 4, a transverse sectionof the same, taken in The projecting endt' also serves to cock the hammer as the b olt or plug is drawn back.

N, iig. 1, is a screw, by which the vstriker L may be the line y y, iig.3.

Figure 5, a detached perspective view of the sliding readily removedfrom or introduced in the bolt or plug C, the motion of said strikerbeing limited by they enbolt.

Figure 6, a detached view of the trigger and sere.

largement, j, made thereon, sliding in a recess, k, at the fore end ofthe bolt or plug.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding The nose of thestriker is pushed back by the end parts.

A is the barrel. B, the stock. V of the cartridge, on pushing the boltor plug forward G, the sliding bolt, or breech-closing plug, provided inthe breech-piece, in readiness to be againaoted upon with a lever, D,for the purpose of sliding and turnby the hammer K. ing it. -Q is theextractor, placed at the side of the bolt or This bolt or plug slides ina breech-piece, at the plug O, having its front end provided with ashoulder rear end ofthe barrel, said breech-piece being open at or nib,Z, and its Arear end is provided with a dovetail lip, m, which is fittedin a right-angular slot, n, in the exterior of the bolt or plug C, thesides of which are its rear end, to enable the bolt or plug to bereadily withdrawn from the gun, for cleaning or otherwise,

inclined or bevelled, to form a dovetail corresponding with the lip m.(See figs. 3, 4, and 5.)

The lateral portion of the slot u admits of the turning ofthe bolt orplug in the breech-piece without the extractor being turned, while thelongitudinal portion This cap or cover E entirely closes the open rearend of the breech-piece D', and also the rear part of a groove, a, inthe breech-piece, through which the carofy said slot admits of acertaindegree of longitudinal backward movement of the bolt or plugbefore the extractor is moved back.v

l? is a spring-'catch, placed in the lower part of the breech-piece D',and having vits upper end terminating in a nib, to t or catch intoeither of two recesses",- o o', in the exterior of' the bolt or plug,near its rear end.

This spring-catch, in connection with the recesses o o', prevents acasual movement ofthe bolt or plug.

The screw. N, in the bolt'or plug C, may be placed at the rear end,instead of being in the position shown, and the striker introduced frombehind, in order to obviate the possible eeet in the screw becomingloosened by the explosion of the cartridge.

The gun is loaded and fired, or discharged, as follows:

The'bolt or plug is drawn l back, the cartridge inserted into thebreech-piece in front of the bolt or plug, and the latter then shovedforward, and locked by turning it to the right, at the completion of,its forward movement, a rib, ax', onthe bolt or plug being turned downin front of .a shoulder, bX, of the breechfpiece. The nib lof theextractor catches over a flange on the 'rear end ofthe cartridge.

The gun is now ready for firing 0r being discharged, the sere H beingfreed from the hammer K by pulling the trigger G, and the vspring Mforcing the hammer upward against the rear end of the striker L, aspreviously explained. Y d

The lever D of the bolt or plug O is then turned to the left, so thatthe rib ax will be in line with the slot or opening 1n the top ofthebreech-piece, andthe lip m1 at the rear end of the extractor, broughtin line with the longtudinal'portion of the -slot fn:

The bolt or plug C is thendrawn back, the extractor VO drawing the shellof the cartridge with it,whenthe the cartridge may be discharged fromthe breech-piece,

and a succeeding cartridge inserted. We claim as new, and desire toPatentl. The breech-piece D", provided with an open rear l end, incombination with the cap or cover E, andthe sliding bolt or plug C, saidparts being arranged sub-l stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. Connecting the extractor O with the slide or plug O, by means of thedovetail lip m on the former, fitted in a dovetail slot, n, in thelatter, substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

3. The combination ofthe bolt or plug O, breech-v piece D', cap or`cover E, extractor O, striker' L, and ham mer K, all arranged tooperate in the manner substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

The above specification of our invention signed by us, this 11th dayofNovember, 1867.

HENRY CARTER.

GEORGE HENRY EDWARDS. Witnesses A". M. CLARK, W. G. E. 4SwrNNooir.

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